Snake Counting Game

Snake Counting Game

Major Concept: Matching sets and numeralsNumber of Players: Two or moreNumber of Pages: 41Materials: One of each of the cards in this set:

Rules: The dealer shuffles the deck and deal each player three cards face-up. She places the rest of the deck face-up in front of her.

Starting with the player to the left of the dealer, each player in turn checks her cards for doubles. A double is a card on which the numeral represents the number of dots:

The first player to have a double places it face-up in the center of the table. If no player has a double, each player in turn draws the top card from the deck until a double is drawn. Each player collects the non-double cards that she draws.

After the first double has been played, the next players looks at her cards for one with a numeral that matches the dot half of the first double or a card with dots to match the numeral half of the first double.